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Original Research Article

Women’s preferences for menstrual bleeding frequency in 12 European countries: the Inconvenience Due to Women’s Monthly Bleeding (ISY) survey

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Pages 268-273 | Received 21 Mar 2017, Accepted 21 May 2017, Published online: 26 Jun 2017

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